Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally this will also involve a much more critical look at the existing syllabuses and there will be areas where it will be felt that curriculum reforms consistent with enlightened teaching and effective learning are imperative . |
| 2 | But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level . |
| 3 | Another local " gentleman " considered , however , that clothiers imposed impossible standards for the closeness of the weave and then extracted arbitrary penalties from the weavers for failing to meet them . |
| 4 | Now that Bernard left industrial action to others , the heart had quite gone out of the staff 's work-to-rule and normal relations were resumed . |
| 5 | If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God . |
| 6 | Buyers who habitually purchase supplies from one supplier may recognise that change involves unwarranted risk . |
| 7 | On this personal level he is aware that change happens all the time and what is important to him , as it is to any composer , are ‘ those moments when people come up to me and say , ‘ this work has changed my life ’ ’ . |
| 8 | It was the fact that Perk had many different coloured ribbons and every day she would select one to go with her outfit and because she had gone missing wearing a yellow dress , Gail suspected that it was Mr Elder who had taken Perk . |
| 9 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid . |
| 10 | Also , the way in which the machinery was designed ( by totally enclosing the mixing vessels ) meant that operators lost much useful feedback about the state of the process . |
| 11 | When librarians struggle to find appropriate means of evaluating user education programmes and when there is scant evidence that programmes have much effect on students attend . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that Parliament struck these words out of s.62 because they took away from the purity of the section . |
| 13 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 14 | ‘ They should write , phone and insist that Parliament addresses this issue now . |
| 15 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 16 | I could see that Holmes found this both interesting and strange . |
| 17 | To some extent , the demoralisation and poverty of spirit I had encountered could be attributed to the misfortunes of geography ; to the fact that Czechoslovakia had such ruthless neighbours as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | The World Bank estimates that Czechoslovakia requires more than US$50 billion to reduce pollution levels and to bring environmental standards to acceptable international levels . |
| 19 | Further , it was suggested that disciplines embody certain values and that acceptance of these values may be necessary to achieve success in a discipline . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it is acknowledged that disciplines maintain different marking conventions — differences that a grades-only system could reduce . |
| 21 | I am very sympathetic to it , and have tried to put it into effect in some of my own writing , but there is an accompanying danger that literature becomes absorbed by culture , and that literary values are superseded by cultural ones . |
| 22 | The rapid progress of military and naval technology , organisational changes , the sheer growth in the size of armies and navies , meant that states scrutinised each other 's progress in these respects with increasing care , while the few serious armed conflicts of 1871 – 1914 became laboratories in which new weapons and methods could be studied and their effectiveness tested . |
| 23 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |
| 24 | This was a lady of 50 who came with chronic sinusitis , so severely blocked in fact that X-rays showed black over the frontal sinus . |
| 25 | Yet figures for 1692 show that Roger paid varying sums as his share in the venture : |
| 26 | One of the reasons it thinks COSE is interested in its participation is some key technology that DEC has that in its infinite wisdom it has failed to trumpet . |
| 27 | The fact that DEC plucked him out of its largest and most profitable systems businesses and split that down the middle so he could run the NT operation is proof that DEC expects significant results out of NT . |
| 28 | This perspective takes as its point of departure the discrepancy between the law 's assertion that shareholders control corporate managers and the reality of their more or less total failure to exercise any of the responsibilities of ownership . |
| 29 | This insisted that shareholders sanctioned such donations before they were made instead of only being able to discuss them afterwards . |
| 30 | But the grand design was torpedoed when Lord Hanson made a bid for Imperial that shareholders found impossible to resist . |